Beowulf's Children

Name: Beowulf's Children
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes
ISBN: 9781470835750

Author: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 12 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 09/20/2012

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

A powerhouse trio of science fiction greats has united to further explore the planet Avalon, first introduced in their classic novelThe Legacy of Heorot.Once upon a long, long time ago, our parents and grandparents left a place called Earth. They traveled across the stars in a ship calledGeographicto find paradise. A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents first arrived on Earth. Setting out to explore the mainland, this group of young rebels feels ready to fight any grendels that get in their way. On Avalon, however, there are monsters that dwarf the ones their parents fought, and as the group will soon learn, monsters also dwell in the human heart.Avalon does not give up her secrets easily, and some of those mysteries are wicked as sin and blacker than the grave.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dirk on March 17, 2013

The Legacy of Heorot is one of a few novels I have read multiple times. It was also my introduction, not only to hard science fiction, but to horror. The Grendels were terrifying. The Dragons of Heorot (also published as Beowulf's Children) is a very different kettle of fish. It gets off to a slow st......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on December 11, 2021

For what should be a fairly interesting multi-generational survival adventure on an alien world, with changing social structures and the need to shoot REALLY fast to take down the extremely dangerous locals, I was kinda saddened to see a LOT of the page-space devoted to some rather cringe-worthy sex......more

Goodreads review by Craig on March 17, 2018

The main thing wrong with this book is that it's not nearly as good as the first volume, The Legacy of Heorot. The exploration and colonization themes take second place to ideas about sociology and politics that the authors want to espouse. There was a rather long period between the two, so it's fit......more

Goodreads review by Nathan on October 01, 2010

Reading Beowulf's Children I found my self equal parts absorbed and frustrated. I enjoyed the setting, no, I loved the setting - a beautifully constructed world that the inhabitants were struggling to understand and live in, with lifeforms that struck the right chord between alien and believable. Wh......more

Goodreads review by Zachary on August 10, 2009

I grabbed this book because I remembered it being mentioned as a highlight of Larry Niven's bibliography in another of his books. That, and the cover was kinda exciting with the gold print and all. That said, I wasn't sure I would enjoy this book too much because one of the aspects of sci-fi that I......more